A google prize for ZW?

[Neil Tangri]

Hi folks,

I don't know if you've heard, but Google is offering 100 prizes of
US$10m each to people who have innovative ideas which make the world a
better place. They have to be practical, but not necessarily
technological. I was thinking that ZW would qualify well -- it would be
amazing to take one town and really thoroughly implement a functioning
ZW program. And not only could you get a bunch of money, but Google's
name on it would give it the publicity and authority that is hard to
come by otherwise.

Here's an article about it:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html

and the prize site itself:

http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html

cheers,

Neil

[Waste Not]

Hi Folks

Keen to find out about any local government-run waste brokering/waste
matching/or industrial symbiosis-type services that are operating out
there. Preferably, services that go beyond an online waste exchange
directory.

Any examples gratefully received.

With thanks

Nadine

Nadine Wakim
Senior Consultant
Waste Not Consulting
PO Box 78 372
Grey Lynn
Auckland
New Zealand
www.wastenot.co.nz
Phone: + 64 9 360 5182
Fax: + 64 9 360 5187

[Norm Ruttan]

Hi Nadine,

1. www.cmex.ca run by the Clean Calgary Association. Business
consultancy, with active waste matching, using our software.

2. www.wastematch.org run by the City of New York/City College with
active consultancy, etc.

3. www.vbmx.org run by the Northeast Recycling Council with some
interaction with business, exchange users.

4. www.kppc-kime.org run by the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center
at the U. of Lousville goes beyond online passive materials exchange.

5. www.scrapmatchga.org run by the State of Georgia with an online
materials exchange, plus.

6. www.wastexchange.org run by Florida State University, Southern
Waste Information Exchange has some activity beyond materials
exchange.

7. new exchanges with some offline activity, and enhanced (active
waste brokering) online in Massachusetts (State), Rhode Island (Rhode
Island Resource Recovery Association)

8. www.materialtrader.org in Pennsylvania, run by the U. of
Pennsylvania (Wharton) Small Business Development Center. Some active
activities beyond the waste exchange, and some active waste brokering
beyond the passive (do it yourself) online waste exchange.

More coming. All the above use our exchange software, or exchange
software plus active brokering tools.

Norm Ruttan
iWasteNot Systems

[Norm Ruttan]

Forgot to mention a couple mroe.

www.giffordslist.org which is run by the Gifford Foundation in
Syracuse New York connecting about 100+ non-profits with a materials
exchange run actively.

www.bcimex.ca which is run by the Recycling Council of British
Columbia. I don't think they do a lot beyond the online 'do it
yourself' exchange, but I could be wrong.

Please feel free to write or call for more information.

On Nov 20, 9:16 pm, Norm Ruttan <normrut...@iwastenotsystems.com>
wrote:
> Hi Nadine,
>
> 1.www.cmex.carun by the Clean Calgary Association. Business

> consultancy, with active waste matching, using our software.
>

> 2.www.wastematch.orgrun by the City of New York/City College with
> active consultancy, etc.
>
> 3.www.vbmx.orgrun by the Northeast Recycling Council with some

> interaction with business, exchange users.
>

> 4.www.kppc-kime.orgrun by the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center

> at the U. of Lousville goes beyond online passive materials exchange.
>

> 5.www.scrapmatchga.orgrun by the State of Georgia with an online
> materials exchange, plus.
>
> 6.www.wastexchange.orgrun by Florida State University, Southern

> Waste Information Exchange has some activity beyond materials
> exchange.
>
> 7. new exchanges with some offline activity, and enhanced (active
> waste brokering) online in Massachusetts (State), Rhode Island (Rhode
> Island Resource Recovery Association)
>

> 8.www.materialtrader.orgin Pennsylvania, run by the U. of

> Pennsylvania (Wharton) Small Business Development Center. Some active
> activities beyond the waste exchange, and some active waste brokering
> beyond the passive (do it yourself) online waste exchange.
>
> More coming. All the above use our exchange software, or exchange
> software plus active brokering tools.
>
> Norm Ruttan
> iWasteNot Systems
>
> On Nov 19, 9:12 pm, "Waste Not" <waste...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Folks
>
> > Keen to find out about any local government-run waste brokering/waste
> > matching/or industrial symbiosis-type services that are operating out
> > there. Preferably, services that go beyond an online waste exchange
> > directory.
>
> > Any examples gratefully received.
>
> > With thanks
>
> > Nadine
>
> > Nadine Wakim
> > Senior Consultant
> > Waste Not Consulting
> > PO Box 78 372
> > Grey Lynn
> > Auckland
> > New Zealandwww.wastenot.co.nz
> > Phone: + 64 9 360 5182

> > Fax: + 64 9 360 5187- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Dan Knapp]

Hello Nadine:

Here in Alameda County, California, we have an agency called the
Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board. Their purpose
is to achieve ever-higher reuse, recycling, and composting rates by
funding and promoting materials recovery enterprises of all kinds,
handling all commodities. They were created by Citizen Initiative in
1989, and have invested many tens of millions into building recycling
infrastructure since then. The source of their funding is a
surcharge on garbage at landfills and transfer stations.

The ACSRRB is a mouthful, so they have adopted a nickname:
StopWaste. StopWaste publishes a very useful directory that gives
people looking to recycle different materials all the options for
recycling that there are in our area: their names, locations, hours
of operation, specifications, materials accepted, and so on.

I distribute thousands of these directories to my reuse and recycling
customers every year. Published as a non-virtual magazine for over a
decade, this directory is now about the size of a small telephone
book. You can get it online too; visit StopWaste.org.

My company, Urban Ore, is part of this very large and extensive
trading network.

Please convey my warm regards to friends there in New Zealand.

Dan Knapp
Urban Ore, Inc., a reuse and recycling business in Berkeley,
California since 1980

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[Rick Meyers]

The Iowa Waste Exchange program relies heavily on staff performing one-
on-one customized assistance and site visits to business and industry
(& there's also an online directory). While it is a state program,
the Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency contributes matching
funds to support the position working in its territory due to the need
in heavily industrialized Linn County. (I was in that position for
nearly 7 years.)
Here's the link to the state program: http://www.iowadnr.gov/waste/iwe/index.html
...and to find contact information for the local solid waste agency
mentioned above: http://www.solidwasteagency.org/

Rick Meyers
Recycling Specialist, City of Milwaukee

[MaryEllen Etienne]

Hi all,

A few of the numerous government run/sponsored materials exchange programs include:

• The Tood Good to Toss Network http://www.2good2toss.com
• NY WasteMatch http://www.wastematch.org
• Madison Stuff Exchange http://www.madisonstuffexchange.com
• The Biomass Trader Network (run by separate states agencies) http://www.biomasstrader.org
• Calgary Materials Exchange http://www.cmex.ca/exchange/

Check out iWasteNot Systems for more exchanges ... http://iwastenotsystems.com/our-clients

MaryEllen Etienne
Executive Director
Reuse Alliance
www.reusealliance.org
mary...@reusealliance.org
917.238.6218

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